When many who still aren’t in cities move into them. Urbanization in China has yet more runway and that drives rail utilization.

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These Moto models were pretty nice.

That allows a marginal increase in density. It’s gotta be thicker. I’m being sarcastic as to how we can’t possibly get 1-2mm thicker phones in order to get longer lasting batteries from the American or Korean manufacturers.

Let me guess, it’s a couple mm thicker right?

It probably can be packaged in a flatpak but it would be more of a challenge than using the docker package. You could implement your use case today with the default docker compose setup. You could be up and running in minutes. Start it with -d and it would even start automatically on reboot. It won’t consume any more resources than a flatpak version.

Just try this in a directory somewhere: https://immich.app/docs/install/docker-compose/

As for docker itself, if you’re on Ubuntu or Debian, you can use the docker version from the stock repos. The package is docker.io and for compose you want docker-compose-v2

Yes, it prevents bit rot. It’s why I switched to it from the standard mdraid/LVM/Ext4 setup I used before.

The instructions seem correct but there’s some room for improvement.

Instead of using logical device names like this:

sudo zpool create zfspool raidz1 sda sdb sdc sdd sde -f

You want to use hardware IDs like this:

sudo zpool create zfspool raidz1 /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST8000VN0022-2EL112_ZA2FERAP /dev/disk/by-id/wwn-0x5000cca27dc48885 ...

You can discover the mapping of your disks to their logical names like this:

ls -la /dev/disk/by-id/*

Then you also want to add these options to the command:

sudo zpool create -o ashift=12 -o autotrim=on -O acltype=posixacl -O compression=lz4 -O dnodesize=auto -O normalization=formD -O relatime=on -O xattr=sa zfspool ...

These do useful things like setting optimal block size, compression (basically free performance), a bunch of settings that make ZFS behave like a typical Linux filesystem (its defaults come from Solaris).

Your final create command should look like:

sudo zpool create  -o ashift=12 -o autotrim=on -O acltype=posixacl -O compression=lz4 -O dnodesize=auto -O normalization=formD -O relatime=on -O xattr=sa zfspool raidz1 /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST8000VN0022-2EL112_ZA2FERAP /dev/disk/by-id/wwn-0x5000cca27dc48885 ...

You can experiment till you get your final creation command since creation/destruction is nearly instant. Don’t hesitate to create/destroy multiple times till you got it right.

Yes exactly.

Yes. It’s what I do. In fact some of the servers I’m running use my own VPN which allows me to securely connect to them.

They can’t. Competition for capital is forcing them to extract the everliving profit out of people. Their competitors would not be far behind on this train if it increases profitability.

Basically the equivalent of RAID 5 in terms of redundancy.

You don’t even need to do RAIDz expansion, although that feature could save some space. You can just add another redundant set of disks to the existing one. E.g. have a 5-disk RAIDz1 which gives you the space of 4 disks. Then maybe slap on a 2-disk mirror which gives you the space of 1 additional disk. Or another RAIDz1 with however many disks you like. Or a RAIDz2, etc. As long as the newly added space has adequate redundancy of its own, it can be seamlessly added to the existing one, “magically” increasing the available storage space. No fuss.

This. Also it’s not difficult to expand at all. There are multiple ways. Just ask here. You could also ask for hypothetical scenarios now if you like.

• That power situation looks suspicious. You better know what you’re doing so you don’t run into undercurrent events under load.
• Use ZFS RAIDz1 instead of RAID 5.

I outlined some differences that could make it worth it over just interface binding for some. Another is that it makes it impossible to accidentally have another application exit through the tunnel, leaking your identity, like a browser logged into gmail.com. You have to explicitly set the container as proxy in the browser for that to become possible. It also allows using a separate VPN connection, provider or region for the torrent client, while the desktop user is free to use a different VPN connection or none.

I guess not all have lost their minds. If enough Israelis don’t snap out of their psychosis, they’ll end up in the position of an autocratic Gulf state pronto.

This line about “It’s as easy as leaving Ukraine” was only somewhat true in the beginning when it was more of a “special military operation” and less of a war. As others have pointed out, a lot has changed economically and most likely politically. Putin isn’t an absolute master that can do anything on a whim with no repercussions whatsoever. Like any other place and time, the ruling class only gets to rule if enough of the working class isn’t destitute. If the ruling class gets enough people into poverty, heads are very likely to roll.

This is why the most foolproof solution I’ve found is to use a docker container that has VPN and torrent client built-in. It’ll have the networking configuration done by someone who knows better. The most popular ones, like this, would permit no internet access out of the container outside of the VPN host. Then it doesn’t matter whether the torrent client binds to a specific interface or not, or what its configuration is. It’s trapped, or sandboxed, and the only way out is via the VPN tunnel. Once you have setup one of these, you can also reuse it from other containers with other apps, like your Usenet client, or even outside of containers via the built-in HTTP proxy. I know there’s also a qBit based container but I haven’t read into it or used it so I can’t vouch for it. The Transmission-OpenVPN based one is rock solid. Have used it for many, many years.

I didn’t have Chinese robotaxis driving for Uber in my bingo card.

Hm. I guess that makws sense. So the Russians are in a better position technologically while probably weaker in manpower than in the beginning of the war. But the tech could probably offset that. Economically they’re probably overall benefitting from shifting directly to Chinese products that have much lower profit margins than what they used to pay for European and US goods that flooded in after 1991. So their PPP ratio is probably rising. Would be interesting to see if that’s borne out in data. If they’re able to make more missiles, drones and such for less, in a sustainable fashion, then I guess there is a reason for building up deterrent manufacturing in the EU to counter it.

Final versions are an illusion. 😄